Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
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Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.
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After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
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You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
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If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.
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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
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Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)
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My characters hope for better lives.
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The call of the Word of God to the gospel ministry comes to ALL those who have the gifts for such a ministry.
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
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Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.
